Light Drops

Light Drops
Directed byFernando Vendrell
Written byIan Swann
Screenplay byFernando Vendrell
Produced byAna Costa and Fernando Costa
CinematographyMário Masini
Edited byJosé Nascimento
Music byNuno Canavarro and Luís Represas
Production
company
Cinemate
Distributed byMarfilmes, Lusomundo (Mozambique) and AMC (Portugal)
Release date
  • 2002 (2002)
Running time
100 minutes
Countries
  • Portugal
  • Mozambique
LanguagePortuguese

Light Drops (Portuguese: O Gotejar da Luz) is a Portuguese/Mozambican film by Fernando Vendrell.

Vendrell's film is set in the colonial Mozambique of the 1950s and tells the story of teenage protagonist Rui Pedro's growing awareness of the injustices of colonial Mozambique.

The story is set in the settlement of Bué Maria on the Pungwe River, in the central Mozambican province of Sofala.